Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1113 from 2013/5/24
From: Nederland
Quote:ASiegel wrote:
Quote:
Intuition wrote:
Report back on which one was easiest, which was quickest and which one you needed to go to several websites to download drivers just so your hardware functions correctly. :)
Have you actually tested this yourself? Windows 10 downloads optional drivers for a vast pool of hardware components fully automatically.
I upgraded an 11 years old Vista laptop earlier this year and every single component was detected and had the appropriate driver installed. The OS also found a printer connected to the same network and downloaded the correct driver for it as well.
Mind you, I also ran into odd issues such as Windows 10 64bit not supporting hardware that happily runs the 64bit edition of Windows 7 due to an obscure CPU feature that is missing from a number of Intel´s older generation low-voltage mobile CPUs. But still, I would not argue that any niche operating system could possibly provide better hardware compatibility overall.
Yep.
ASUS T100TAM. 32bit Windows 10. Need to download drivers for everything or it doesn't work properly.
Not so with Linux. I don't use Windows so it's not an issue for me but I kept it on there as a dual boot option just in case I ever need it in future.
1.67GHz 15" PowerBook G4, 1GB RAM, 128MB Radeon 9700M Pro, 64GB SSD, MorphOS 3.15
2.7GHz DP G5, 4GB RAM, 512MB Radeon X1950 Pro, 500GB SSHD, MorphOS 3.9
